Art under attack
Go read James's posting of Nicolás Dumit Estévez being arrested while doing a public art project on Valentines Day --...
Posted Friday February 28, 2003 at 6:32 PM | Full Post
Bridge to Baghdad
Very cool project, info from MattS originally: BRIDGE TO BAGHDAD You are invited to join BRIDGE TO BAGHDAD: A Youth...
Posted Friday February 28, 2003 at 4:35 PM | Full Post
Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo
Busy with work, so I'll let Atrios explain it for me: why I don't link to Josh Marshall's web site...
Posted Friday February 28, 2003 at 4:11 PM | Full Post
Senators against war
A bipartisan group of former United States Senators today announced its opposition to the Bush Administration's plans to invade Iraq....
Posted Friday February 28, 2003 at 12:31 PM | Full Post
Video with Ari
No War Blog: Ari gets laughed out of the room -- C-SPAN has the video. You can hear a reporter...
Posted Wednesday February 26, 2003 at 12:23 PM | Full Post
Ari laughed off stage
Ari Fleischer is laughed off the stage by reporters when he says, "You're saying that the leaders of other nations...
Posted Wednesday February 26, 2003 at 11:59 AM | Full Post
Kieran Healy's PSA
Kieran Healy has a Public Service Announcement that everyone should read....
Posted Wednesday February 26, 2003 at 11:41 AM | Full Post
Do we now consider it an act of war to disagree with us?
U.S. Warns France in Struggle Over Iraq The United States fired a warning shot Tuesday across the bows of France,...
Posted Tuesday February 25, 2003 at 10:53 AM | Full Post
Sherpa internet cafe
A sherpa plans to create the world's highest internet cafe on Mt. Everest....
Posted Monday February 24, 2003 at 11:37 AM | Full Post
Peter Vallone, Jr. on Iraq
What an idiot. There is no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, but here is Peter Vallone,...
Posted Monday February 24, 2003 at 10:47 AM | Full Post
On Pollack's arguments for attacking Iraq
Daily Kos has a great summary of the Carnegie Endowment's critique of Kenneth Pollack's op-ed piece in the Times on...
Posted Sunday February 23, 2003 at 9:49 PM | Full Post
Open letter to Salon
Go read Atrios's open letter to Salon...
Posted Saturday February 22, 2003 at 5:08 PM | Full Post
INS Demo
I wasn't feeling well, so I stayed home from the INS Demo, but James went and wrote about it....
Posted Saturday February 22, 2003 at 12:41 PM | Full Post
Joe Ovelman @ Daniel Silverstein
I went to Joe Ovelman's opening on Friday night before going to the Public. HIGHLY recommended. There is a new...
Posted Saturday February 22, 2003 at 1:51 AM | Full Post
New York Makes Me Hard
I saw "Radiant Baby", the new musical about Keith Haring, at the Public Theater tonight. My title above comes from...
Posted Saturday February 22, 2003 at 1:47 AM | Full Post
And we wonder why we have no allies
Full U.S. Control Planned for Iraq The Bush administration plans to take complete, unilateral control of a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq,...
Posted Friday February 21, 2003 at 5:24 PM | Full Post
Quarlo
Good set of new photos up on Quarlo...
Posted Friday February 21, 2003 at 3:38 PM | Full Post
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman on why he left the New Yorker -- good, but frankly I think comparing smoking restrictions with post...
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 11:31 PM | Full Post
Garbage
U.N. inspectors say tips from the U.S. are garbage....
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 10:31 PM | Full Post
Uppity Negro
Go read Uppity Negro on how bad American media has become....
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 1:52 PM | Full Post
FBOFW
Lynn Johnston, creator of one of my favorite comic strips, says it will end in a few years when her...
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 12:42 PM | Full Post
Things to ponder
Things to ponder about war with Iraq, from CalPundit....
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 12:39 PM | Full Post
Pandagon
I love Pandagon's new design....
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 11:29 AM | Full Post
Open source code better
A study says that open source code for operatings systems is of higher quality than that of closed source systems....
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 11:21 AM | Full Post
Bombs for democracy
I think the logic of all of the people who say anti-war protesters are coddling (or appeasing) a dictator boils...
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 11:13 AM | Full Post
Iraq Timeline
Michael Tomaski provides a good timeline on how we got to this point on Iraq....
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 10:38 AM | Full Post
INS protest on Friday
If anyone has a better link for this, let me know. I'm going to protest the INS special registrations downtown...
Posted Thursday February 20, 2003 at 12:11 AM | Full Post
David Neumann - Sentence
Go go go! Right now! Go to the P.S.122 web site and get tickets to see David Neumann's Sentence. I...
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 11:33 PM | Full Post
Democracy in Iraq
Nathan Newman: Democracy in Iraq -- It was nice rhetoric...
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 3:55 PM | Full Post
Get your war on
I'm nine days late for this: new Get Your War On....
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 3:50 PM | Full Post
Americans for War
Lighten up! The war will be in someone else's country. -- Americans For War...
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 3:38 PM | Full Post
iPods at Grammys
Even though they can't play any of the music available through the music industry's "legit" music-distribution sites like PressPlay, iPods...
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 1:35 PM | Full Post
GAO/Cheney
GOP Senators threatened the GAO with a budget cut if it did not drop the lawsuit against Cheney to get...
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 1:22 PM | Full Post
Joe Ovelman
Joe Ovelman opens at Daniel Silverstein Gallery: Untitled (Self Portrait as Michael Jackson), 2002, c print, 24 x 20" Opening:...
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 10:44 AM | Full Post
Barry photo
James provides a photo of me, for those that are curious....
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 12:43 AM | Full Post
Israel / Germany 1938
Is Israel today vis-a-vis the Palestinians the equivalent of 1938 Germany?...
Posted Wednesday February 19, 2003 at 12:23 AM | Full Post
Souter gay?
Is there a gay man on the Supreme Court?...
Posted Tuesday February 18, 2003 at 6:18 PM | Full Post
Movie
- I love my dead gay son. - How do you think he would have felt about a limp-wristed son...
Posted Tuesday February 18, 2003 at 6:04 PM | Full Post
Sheep
Ann Telnaes cartoon - yes the networks are all sheep....
Posted Tuesday February 18, 2003 at 4:28 PM | Full Post
Occupation
Yes, NYC really is under occupation. James comments on the personal account of Dan'l being handcuffed on a subway platform....
Posted Tuesday February 18, 2003 at 12:44 AM | Full Post
This letter explains a lot
... about why I'm such a Europhile -- from the NY Times: As an Italian living in the United States,...
Posted Monday February 17, 2003 at 11:46 PM | Full Post
Laura Bush/crying wolf
Laura Bush says the media is just being irresponsible and needlessly scaring the public by reporting so much on terror...
Posted Monday February 17, 2003 at 7:20 PM | Full Post
Yahoo/I love NY
Featured photo on Yahoo! Photos: gay couple with twins in Madison Park on East 23rd Street....
Posted Monday February 17, 2003 at 7:03 PM | Full Post
Code Pink
Code Pink and other feminist peace groups, including the Raging Grannies are making waves....
Posted Monday February 17, 2003 at 6:36 PM | Full Post
Snow day
Posted Monday February 17, 2003 at 6:05 PM | Full Post
Chirac
From No More Mister Nice Blog, an excerpt from an interview with Chirac. Do you think any of our "leaders"...
Posted Monday February 17, 2003 at 11:06 AM | Full Post
greg.org on Struth
Go read greg.org on Thomas Struth....
Posted Monday February 17, 2003 at 12:07 AM | Full Post
Great Gibbon Quote
Courtesy of Travelers Diagram: "If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would...
Posted Sunday February 16, 2003 at 3:26 PM | Full Post
CIA sabotage
Senior Democrats have accused the CIA of sabotaging weapons inspections in Iraq by refusing to co-operate fully with the UN...
Posted Sunday February 16, 2003 at 3:04 PM | Full Post
U.S. filed a brief in support of preventing a march
I can't find this anywhere else. But there's more to it than that. The Bush administration - which is in...
Posted Sunday February 16, 2003 at 2:01 PM | Full Post
Americans are babies
Even though I think the 250,000 number is low for NYC, look at the numbers in this Reuters story: NYC:...
Posted Saturday February 15, 2003 at 6:36 PM | Full Post
Dissent is Hot
The weather was cold, the dissent was hot. I got back a little while ago from the anti-war rally. Unlike...
Posted Saturday February 15, 2003 at 6:06 PM | Full Post
What he said
TBOGG: The world is a hornet's nest and we now have the profound bad luck to be living in it...
Posted Saturday February 15, 2003 at 12:37 AM | Full Post
Of course we'll help rebuild Iraq
The United States Congress has stepped in to find nearly $300 million in humanitarian and reconstruction funds for Afghanistan after...
Posted Friday February 14, 2003 at 6:34 PM | Full Post
Some tabloids are better than other tabloids
The Mirror (UK): New York Post:...
Posted Friday February 14, 2003 at 4:01 PM | Full Post
February 15 Anti-War Rally
I'll be starting here. If you're interested in getting a Blue Button, we just updated the web site with...
Posted Friday February 14, 2003 at 2:15 PM | Full Post
Fabricated
The "orange" alert was likely based on fabricated information....
Posted Friday February 14, 2003 at 12:16 PM | Full Post
Fifth of July
Go see Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July at Signature. We saw it a few nights ago and I had not...
Posted Thursday February 13, 2003 at 9:33 PM | Full Post
Calling all non-profits/starving artists
As part of a class-action settlement, Toshiba is giving away computer equipment "for underserved individuals."...
Posted Thursday February 13, 2003 at 8:40 PM | Full Post
This could get messy
Here is a map of all of the feeder marches planned to join the anti-war rally around 1st Avenue/49th Street...
Posted Thursday February 13, 2003 at 8:32 PM | Full Post
Open letter
Go sign the open letter of MoveOn.org and AlterNet.org thanking our friends in Europe and asking them to stand in...
Posted Thursday February 13, 2003 at 8:29 PM | Full Post
Cool Art
Cool art projects for Feb. 14: Love A Commuter. I love the picture of Maria Alos from last year's version....
Posted Tuesday February 11, 2003 at 11:56 PM | Full Post
Free speech is at the government's pleasure
A federal judge has denied a permit allowing the anti-war march on February 15 to march to the U.N., saying...
Posted Monday February 10, 2003 at 4:29 PM | Full Post
Germans: America as warmonger
57 percent of Germans polled agree with the statement: "The United States is a nation of warmongers."...
Posted Monday February 10, 2003 at 4:20 PM | Full Post
Are Europeans really worse off economically?
The Economist has an interesting article on a recent paper by Robert Gordon, an economist at Northwestern. The article has...
Posted Sunday February 9, 2003 at 9:03 PM | Full Post
Any time's a good time for a photograph
contrasts.net: Any time's a good time for a photograph...
Posted Sunday February 9, 2003 at 1:29 AM | Full Post
David Rees
L.A. Weekly has an article on David "Get Your War On" Rees, including a nice photo....
Posted Sunday February 9, 2003 at 1:12 AM | Full Post
Lou Harrison MP3
I should have done this a few days ago, when I posted about the death of Lou Harrison. Here is...
Posted Sunday February 9, 2003 at 12:35 AM | Full Post
Saudis
Saudis plan to end U.S. presence after Iraq?...
Posted Sunday February 9, 2003 at 12:04 AM | Full Post
US may use biochemical weapons
The U.S. plans for the use of biochemical weapons in Iraq. Apparently we're allowed to gas Iraqis, but Saddam Hussein...
Posted Saturday February 8, 2003 at 10:25 PM | Full Post
Sarajevo
Sarajevo prepares a plaque and a museum on the assassination that started WWI....
Posted Saturday February 8, 2003 at 10:19 PM | Full Post
German class
I forgot to mention that I started German class at Deutsches Haus a couple of weeks ago. I've wanted to...
Posted Saturday February 8, 2003 at 10:13 PM | Full Post
K48
Great essay by Tom Moody on the K48 show...
Posted Saturday February 8, 2003 at 8:01 PM | Full Post
More on Bill O'Reilly
Not content with harassing the children of WTC victims for being unpatriotic, Bill O'Reilly refers to Mexicans as wetbacks, or...
Posted Saturday February 8, 2003 at 12:47 PM | Full Post
Breslin/Anti-war rally
Go read Jimmy Breslin on the city's refusal to grant a permit for the Feb. 15 anti-war rally....
Posted Saturday February 8, 2003 at 12:38 PM | Full Post
Screened Out
Simon Callow reviews Richard Barrios's history of gay men and women in the movies, Screened Out....
Posted Saturday February 8, 2003 at 11:14 AM | Full Post
Harper's Index-style facts on Iraq
From the Village Voice: A Harper's Index-style listing of facts on Iraq....
Posted Friday February 7, 2003 at 1:24 PM | Full Post
Rumsfeld on Germany
Rumsfeld, appearing before a Congressional hearing, compares Germany to Libya and Cuba for not supporting an attack on Iraq....
Posted Friday February 7, 2003 at 1:08 PM | Full Post
Bill O'Reilly vs. WTC Victim's son
Carpeicthus supplies us with a transcript from Bill O'Reilly, where he attacks the son of a WTC victim for being...
Posted Friday February 7, 2003 at 10:33 AM | Full Post
Corps. back affirmative action
Dozens of big companies are backing the University of Michigan and its affirmative action policy before the Supreme Court, saying...
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 5:30 PM | Full Post
Coliseum Books
Great news! Coliseum Books will reopen across from the Public Library on Fifth Avenue in April....
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 4:44 PM | Full Post
NYC job losses
More than one in five of the jobs lost nationwide over the past year were in New York City, according...
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 4:40 PM | Full Post
Internment
Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, said on a radio call-in...
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 12:19 PM | Full Post
India and Iran
India and Iran unveil a new strategic partership, bringing hope for a new way towards stability in the region....
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 12:05 PM | Full Post
Williamsburg Galleries
Time to start selling ads! The number one result on Google when searching for Williamsburg galleries is me....
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 12:41 AM | Full Post
Go Liz
... and Go Richard Gere: From Liz Smith: MONDAY NIGHT'S American Foundation for AIDS Research fund-raiser, honoring Anna Wintour, Lorne...
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 12:35 AM | Full Post
Images from the first Gulf War
Peter Turnley is a photographer who refused to join the pool covering the first Gulf War, because he knew that...
Posted Thursday February 6, 2003 at 12:10 AM | Full Post
Thicker insulation might have prevented the WTC collapse
A new study says that thicker insulation might have prevented the collapse of the WTC towers, or at least allowed...
Posted Wednesday February 5, 2003 at 11:49 PM | Full Post
Those people don't worship like Anglo-Saxons
They appeared to have changed the caption to this picture in the online version of the story about the raid...
Posted Wednesday February 5, 2003 at 2:51 PM | Full Post
This is the one
Here is where I'll be for the anti-war demo on February 15. Note that there is still no march permit....
Posted Wednesday February 5, 2003 at 12:15 PM | Full Post
France preparing for war?
France is quietly preparing its military in case it decides to join the new Gulf war....
Posted Wednesday February 5, 2003 at 10:47 AM | Full Post
Dude
Dude, where's my war?...
Posted Wednesday February 5, 2003 at 10:36 AM | Full Post
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison, an important American composer, who was a sweet gay artist and activist, has died at 85. I had...
Posted Tuesday February 4, 2003 at 10:18 PM | Full Post
Art in Nacogdoches
Two artists in Nacogdoches create their own memorial to the astronauts....
Posted Tuesday February 4, 2003 at 9:43 PM | Full Post
Guernica covered up
The reproduction of Picasso's "Guernica" at the United Nations has been covered up because it was an inappropriate background for...
Posted Tuesday February 4, 2003 at 9:33 PM | Full Post
Tom Friedman: idiot
Sunday's NY Times had a column by Thomas Friedman on Iraq/American/Europe that was laughably bad. I can't believe it even...
Posted Tuesday February 4, 2003 at 1:16 AM | Full Post
Anti-war at the Goyas
Much of the audience and presenters for the Goyas -- Spain's equivalent of the Oscars -- wore anti-war pins....
Posted Monday February 3, 2003 at 5:44 PM | Full Post
Who gave him the weapons?
Ari, who gave Saddam his weapons?...
Posted Monday February 3, 2003 at 2:03 PM | Full Post
Attack on Iraqi water/sanitation
The British Ministry of Defense admits Iraqi water and sanitation systems could be military targets, which would result in a...
Posted Monday February 3, 2003 at 11:01 AM | Full Post
Mac switcher
A computer security expert says he's considering switching from Windows to Mac because Microsoft's security is so bad....
Posted Sunday February 2, 2003 at 7:54 PM | Full Post
Cheney / Confederate Flag
The Right Wing has been all in a tizzy over ANSWER sponsorhip of anti-war rallies. In short, the argument is...
Posted Sunday February 2, 2003 at 7:50 PM | Full Post
William Pfaff on Europe's reluctance to go to war
William Pfaff in the International Herald Tribune (emphasis mine): American commentators like to think that the "Jacksonian" frontier spirit equips...
Posted Sunday February 2, 2003 at 1:01 PM | Full Post
Pilger: "Blood on their hands"
Go read James's post about John Pilger's column on our likely attack on Iraq. We are becoming a rogue nation,...
Posted Sunday February 2, 2003 at 12:30 PM | Full Post
Art acquisition
We bought several works at the opening of the Cynthia Broan show, including work by Michelle Weinberg -- ours is...
Posted Sunday February 2, 2003 at 12:00 PM | Full Post
Gallery going
We wandered around without a plan in Chelsea today after having lunch with friends. Normally, James has a very planned...
Posted Saturday February 1, 2003 at 6:03 PM | Full Post
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